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Workshop on Deliberative Democracy and Dispute Resolution

Graduate · Historical course

Summer 2005

Topics

  • Welcome Dinner
  • Scenario 1: Municipal Decision Making
  • Scenario 2: Metropolitan Policy Making
  • Scenario 3: National-level Consensus Building
  • Scenario 4: Implementation of Informally Negotiated Agreements or Settlements
  • Closing Remarks - Larry Susskind
  • Celebratory Dinner

Readings

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  • Dryzek, John, ed. “Democratizing Rationality.” In Discursive Democracy: Politics, Policy and Political Science . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 3-25. ISBN: 0521392349.
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  • Fung, Archon, and Erik Olin Wright, eds. “Thinking about Empowered Participatory Governance.” In Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance . London, UK: Verso, 2003, pp. 3-42. ISBN: 1859844669.
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  • Mansbridge, Jane. “Everyday Talk in the Deliberative System.” In Deliberative Politics: Essays on Democracy and Disagreement . Edited by Stephen Macedo. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 211-239. ISBN: 0195131991.
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  • Shapiro, Ian, ed. “Aggregation, Deliberation and the Common Good.” In The State of Democratic Theory . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003, pp. 10-34. ISBN: 0691115478.
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  • Walzer, Michael, ed. “Deliberation…and What Else?” In Politics and Passion . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005, pp. 90-109. ISBN: 030010328X.
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  • Young, Iris Marion. “Activist Challenges to Deliberative Democracy.” In Debating Deliberative Democracy . Edited by James Fishkin and Peter Laslett. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, pp. 102-120. ISBN: 1405100435.
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  • Innes, Judith E., ed. “Consensus Building: Clarifications for the Critics.” Planning Theory 3, no. 1 (2004): 5-20. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
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  • Innes and Booher. “Collaborative Policymaking: Governance Through Dialogue.” In Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society . Edited by Maarten A. Hajer and Hendrik Wagenaar. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 33-59. ISBN: 0521530709.
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  • Menkel-Meadow. “The Lawyer’s Role(s) in Deliberative Democracy.” Nevada Law Journal 5, no. 2 (2005): 347-369. Las Vegas.
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  • In 1990, when the city of Chelsea, Massachusetts was placed into state receivership due to financial trouble and corruption, Susan Podziba led a team of mediators who worked with the citizens of Chelsea to help them craft a new city charter. Podziba describes the process that created the charter, highlighting the manner in which theories of public consensus-building were put into practice.
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  • Susskind, Lawrence. “An Alternative to Roberts Rules of Order…” In The Consensus Building Handbook . Edited by Susskind Lawrence, et al. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999, pp. 3-57. ISBN: 0761908447.
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  • Susskind and Cruikshank. “Theory and Practice of Dispute Resolution and Sources of Difficulty.” In Breaking the Impasse: Consensual Approaches to Resolving Public Disputes . New York, NY: Basic Books, 1987, pp. 16-79. ISBN: 0465007503.
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  • Fishkin, James. “Realizing Deliberative Democracy: Virtual and Face to Face Possibilities.” A version of this paper was presented in Hangzhou, China at the conference on “Deliberative Democracy and Chinese Practice of Participatory and Deliberative Institutions,” November 18-21, 2004.
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  • Fung, Archon. “Deliberation Before the Revolution.” Political Theory 33, no. 2 (June 2005): 397-419. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
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  • Rothman, Jay. “The Cincinnati Police-Community Relations Collaborative.” Criminal Justice 18, no.4 (Winter 2004): 35-42. American Bar Association.
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  • Hajer, Maaren, A. “Setting the Stage, a Dramaturgy of Policy Deliberation.” Administration and Society 36, no. 6 (January 2005): 624-647. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
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  • Roberts, Nancy. “Public Deliberation: An Alternative Approach to Crafting Policy and Setting Direction.” Public Administration Review 57, no. 2 (March/April 1997): 124-132.
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  • ———. “Keeping Public Officials Accountable through Dialogue: Resolving the Accountability Paradox.” Public Administration Review 62, no. 6 (November/December 2002): 658-669.
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  • Roberts, Nancy. “Organizing for Peace Operations.” Public Management Review 7, no. 1 (2005): 111-133.
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  • Jakes, Susan. “Dabbling in Democracy.” Time , August 25, 2005, 12.
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  • Reuben, Richard. “Democracy and Dispute Resolution: The Problem With Arbitration.” Law and Contemporary Problems 62, no. 4 (2004): 101-142.
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  • Fischer, Frank. “Professional Expertise in a Deliberative Democracy: Facilitating Participatory Inquiry.” The Good Society (PEGS) 13, no. 1 (2004): 21-28.
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